Welcome to The JXN Project—a historic preservation non-profit organization dedicated to recontextualizing the origin story of Jackson Ward. The JXN Project, also known as JXN, was founded in 2021 and is committed to capturing the pivotal role of Jackson Ward in the Black American experience – an often under-told story about the nation’s first historically registered Black urban neighborhood, given that 1 in 4 Black Americans can retrace their roots to the region around Richmond, Virginia.


